Aperture Desk Job
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Aperture Desk Job

Valve

2022•Puzzle•About 1 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurecomedyscience fictionlightimaginarylinearglossyemotionally undemanding

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Boxlist takeExpect a breezy, stylish puzzle game, heightened rather than true to life. Best if you like polish over grit.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: very glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

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About This Game

Aperture Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work — your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs. Designed as a free playable short for Valve’s new Steam Deck, Desk Job walks you through the handheld’s controls and features, while not being nearly as boring as that sounds. Lower your expectations: This is not a sequel to Portal. Now get ready to raise them slightly, because it is in the expanded universe of those games. Desk Job puts you squarely in the driver’s seat at Aperture Science. Then quickly removes the driving part and adds a desk in front of the seat.

Summary: IGDB

Story

You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work - your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs.

Screenshots

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Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureComedyScience fiction

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Details

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Released
1 March 2022
Series
Portal
Platforms
Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Time to beat
1h rushed, 1h normally, 1h complete
Taste scores
How we score
Source
IGDB

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